China to promote life-long legal education for citizens

China plans to adopt a system for citizens to receive life-long legal education, according to a draft resolution on the country's eighth five-year national legal publicity plan (2021-25) which was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation on June 7. 

The plan identifies leading cadres and juveniles as the key targets of the legal publicity work over the next five years. It aims to make observation of the law a new way of life for the whole society through a classified legal education approach. 

It proposes to strengthen law-based governance in rural areas, urban communities, enterprises, schools and cyberspace, and to improve the precautionary legal system. 

It calls for publicity of laws and regulations pertaining to public health and emergency response in the hope of being able to maintain a law-based society in emergencies. 

The main goal of the plan is to dramatically raise citizens' legal literacy and the level of law-based governance, enhance people's participation in promoting the rule of law, improve the country's legal environment, and optimize the national legal publicity system.